A Very Bored Man Has Designed An App That Reveals What Women Look Like Without Makeup

How will we trick them into sleeping with us now?

Nov 14, 2017 10:00pm

By Nikki Chowdury

Have you ever conned a man into falling in love with you by convincing him you have glitter eyelids? Well, the jig is up.

Ashot Gabrelyanov, a Russian propagandist living in Brooklyn, is the modern day Mother Teresa behind MakeApp, an app that allows users to see what women look like without makeup—because that's obviously what the world needs right now.

The app itself is fairly unsophisticated, and seems to take cues from other apps that simply age you several years, rather than accurately depicting a makeup-free face.

Here it is in action on actual goddess, Angelina Jolie.

And again.

There are many, many reasons why this app is problematic. First of all, telling women how much makeup they "should" or "shouldn't" be wearing is painfully antiquated, and while this app doesn't overtly do this, it does play into a mindset of makeup shaming.

Secondly, considering 63 per cent of men actually believe women wear makeup to trick them, the underlying belief that women wear makeup to conduct some form of sexual espionage is laughable.

Truly—we sit around in secret covens, coming up with ways to dupe dudes who wear belts with jeans and play Call Of Duty for eight hours a day into dating us. Yeah...no.